What Americans get wrong: survey reveals biggest misconceptions
by Mona Chalabi from on (#WD6F)
Survey measuring gap between public perception and reality reveals Americans vastly overestimate the number of immigrants and atheists in US
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Americans think there are almost twice as many atheists in their country than there actually are, according to a new poll. They also overestimate the number of immigrants, but do guess correctly the percentage of women who work.
The survey by Ipsos Mori released on Wednesday measures misconceptions around the world - and in America some of the biggest concern money. On average, Americans think that the wealthiest 1% of people in the country own 57% of all wealth, 20 percentage points higher than reality.
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